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A sworn declaration by two shippers, Plenis of Hermopolis and Dioskoros of Antinoopolis, addressed to the royal scribe Apollonios also called Chairemon, who was acting as strategos. They swear by the fortune of Caracalla and Geta that they have presented their boats for carrying public wheat down to the granary office at Neapolis (Alexandria), in January AD 212.
Neapolis here is the district of Alexandria where the state granaries received tax grain. The date names Geta as co-emperor, though he was murdered in December 211, so the news had evidently not yet reached the scribes.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Declaration by Shippers). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
This text, which was found floating near the town, S.E. wall, has been reconstituted from a number of fragments. Of its two columns, the first preserves only a few letters from the ends of lines written in three different hands. In the second column two
[1] [… ? lines lost …] [2] Ἀπολλωνίωι τῶι καὶ Χαιρήμονι βασιλικῷ γραμματεῖ διαδεχομένωι καὶ τὴν στρατηγίαν Πλῆνις Πλήνιος ἀπὸ Ἑρμοῦ πόλεως καὶ Διόσκορος Ἀμμωναρίου Ἀντινοεὺς ναύκληροι πλοίων[…]ἀγωγῆς ἀρταβῶν Ευν. ὀμνύομεν τὴν τῶν κυρίων Αὐτοκρατόρων Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Ἀντωνίνου Παρθ…
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